County of Union v. Hopkins

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “a court is to consider the insurance policy as a whole, and a preferred construction will give effect to each provision, attempt to harmonize the provisions with each other, and not render any of the policy provisions meaningless or mere surplusage”
• “In making the determination of intent, a court is to consider the insurance policy as a whole . . . .”
• “[A] preferred construction will . . . not render any of the policy provisions meaningless or mere surplusage.”
• “[A] court is to consider the insurance policy as a whole, and ...not render any of the policy provisions meaningless or mere surplusage”
• “[I]t is the paramount public policy of this State that courts will not lightly interfere with the freedom of parties to contract on any subject matter, on any terms, unless prohibited by statute or public policy, and injury to the public interest clearly appears.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).